:00:00. > :00:12.Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.
:00:13. > :00:16.New figures show young people in the South West are the least
:00:17. > :00:20.A third of 18-year-olds apply for uni, well behind
:00:21. > :00:26.And part of Bristol has one of the lowest rates in the country.
:00:27. > :00:28.Here's our political editor, Paul Barltrop.
:00:29. > :00:30.Bristol and the South West are prosperous -
:00:31. > :00:36.The south of the city is less well-off, and in educational terms
:00:37. > :00:40.Fewer than one in five children growing up around here apply
:00:41. > :00:45.The contrast with next-door North Somerset is stark.
:00:46. > :00:47.Youngsters in places like Long Ashton, just
:00:48. > :00:50.across the Vale, are two and a half times more likely to
:00:51. > :00:56.This is one of just two secondary schools in the South Bristol
:00:57. > :01:03.Ashton Park encourages pupils to go on to higher
:01:04. > :01:11.It just seemed a bit too daunting, and obviously it's really expensive
:01:12. > :01:14.nowadays to go to university, so I just planned on doing my
:01:15. > :01:16.education here and then moving on to employment.
:01:17. > :01:19.I didn't feel like university was the best option for me at all.
:01:20. > :01:22.Cos I don't really enjoy school, don't really get on with it.
:01:23. > :01:24.The region's universities would dearly like to attract more
:01:25. > :01:35.Certainly if I look at Bristol in particular wards,
:01:36. > :01:37.we have appalling pull-through from populations
:01:38. > :01:38.into not just higher education and universities,
:01:39. > :01:43.but into further education and higher skills education.
:01:44. > :01:46.Many head for what is on offer at this south Bristol
:01:47. > :01:50.There to explain why she left full-time education is Casey Abrams.
:01:51. > :01:53.I think the big unknown with uni was actually the fear of uni,
:01:54. > :01:56.of how I would afford to pay for that and how much debt
:01:57. > :01:59.I would have been in afterwards, which is kind of what threw me more
:02:00. > :02:01.into doing an apprenticeship, because obviously I wouldn't
:02:02. > :02:08.A decent opportunity, reckon experts and politicians, but sending more
:02:09. > :02:21.we've got to universities, Exeter down the road and Bath down the
:02:22. > :02:28.road, and it's a shameful statistic. -- we've got two universities.
:02:29. > :02:30.But with schools funding under increasing pressure
:02:31. > :02:32.across the South West, getting pupils to aim
:02:33. > :02:35.Police in Bristol are appealing for witnesses, after a car
:02:36. > :02:37.hit a cyclist and drove off without stopping.
:02:38. > :02:40.The accident happened this afternoon on the A38 Gloucester Road, leaving
:02:41. > :02:49.Just a fortnight after major heart surgery, Cheltenham Town's manager
:02:50. > :02:51.Gary Johnson could be back at the club tomorrow
:02:52. > :03:03.Gary's had heart surgery before, but nothing on the scale of a triple
:03:04. > :03:05.bypass, so he does need to take it slowly!
:03:06. > :03:11.He caught up with our sports editor, Alistair Durden.
:03:12. > :03:13.There have been plenty of well-wishers, and from right
:03:14. > :03:22.It's only two weeks since Gary's surgery, but the 61-year-old
:03:23. > :03:30.You don't want something like this, but when something like this
:03:31. > :03:42.happens, it sort of makes you appreciate the work that
:03:43. > :03:46.you're in, the industry that you're in - it's a pretty close-knit
:03:47. > :03:51.family and it's not just the effort of getting the cards,
:03:52. > :04:00.it's the effort of the words that people could in the cards that
:04:01. > :04:02.are overwhelming, and soon I'll get round everybody
:04:03. > :04:15.Gary's operation was performed by Dr Alan Brian, whose son Joe
:04:16. > :04:18.And of course where Gary's son Lee is the head coach.
:04:19. > :04:22.We had moments where I could talk with Dr Brian about football,
:04:23. > :04:24.but he was very concentrated on my heart as opposed
:04:25. > :04:26.to my managerial career or Joe's football career.
:04:27. > :04:28.I stopped short of saying if I don't come through this
:04:29. > :04:30.then Joe will never play for Bristol City again!
:04:31. > :04:33.As soon as I came round from the operation, the doctor
:04:34. > :04:36.shook me up and said, Mr Johnson, you have to wake up no,
:04:37. > :04:43.Gary's current club Cheltenham haven't won a game
:04:44. > :04:46.Although truthfully he has already started working again from home.
:04:47. > :04:49.A couple of days ago I needed to speak to the strikers
:04:50. > :04:52.because I felt that wasn't quite performing and I could go
:04:53. > :04:55.there so I still have enough respect that can bring them here.
:04:56. > :04:58.They all came here and we had a chat and I should videos
:04:59. > :05:01.They all came here and we had a chat, and we showed them videos
:05:02. > :05:04.and things they can improve on, and I was pleased that
:05:05. > :05:09.We're in a delicate situation at the moment, I know it's just
:05:10. > :05:15.when my wife Florence Nightingale decides that I can get back
:05:16. > :05:18.to the football, then as soon as I feel ready I'll go back
:05:19. > :05:22.A convoy of a hundred yellow cars will roar into the Cotswold village
:05:23. > :05:24.of Bibury tomorrow; it's in support of a pensioner.
:05:25. > :05:27.Peter Maddox lives in one of the most photographed
:05:28. > :05:29.areas in the country - but some tourists didn't like his
:05:30. > :05:32.yellow car being parked there, and claimed it ruined their shots.
:05:33. > :05:34.It was later badly damaged, with the word MOVE
:05:35. > :05:37.Steve Knibbs went along to the village.
:05:38. > :05:38.Yeah, here we are, people have travelled
:05:39. > :05:41.from all over the country - Thirsk, East, West Yorkshire,
:05:42. > :05:43.even just four miles away in Northleach to be
:05:44. > :05:46.This convoy of 100 yellow cards proving that
:05:47. > :05:47.bright is beautiful - isn't that right?
:05:48. > :05:50.- is going to be here tomorrow, coming through the village.
:05:51. > :05:53.If you want to see it, it's going to be at around 10:30.
:05:54. > :05:58.All in honour of course of Peter Maddox, and the problems
:05:59. > :06:01.that he had with his little yellow car on the famous Arlington Road.
:06:02. > :06:05.Peter, what has that support from the public meant to you?
:06:06. > :06:11.And what's nice now is you're going to become a colour,
:06:12. > :06:12.because Vauxhall are going to name...
:06:13. > :06:25.So a great day in prospect tomorrow - the village will have
:06:26. > :06:27.Steve Knibbs, BBC Points West, in Bibury.
:06:28. > :06:29.That's your late update from the West.
:06:30. > :06:31.Your weekend weather coming up now with Ian,
:06:32. > :06:35.Hello and a very good evening to you, we're going to split
:06:36. > :06:38.the weekend quite conveniently into two separate halves of weather
:06:39. > :06:41.- Saturday is going to be a story of sunny spells and showers,
:06:42. > :06:43.some of those will be quite heavy in places,
:06:44. > :06:45.and conversely on Sunday after a chilly start it's
:06:46. > :06:48.going to be dry and settled day, I suspect actually with plenty
:06:49. > :06:54.Now, through the rest of tonight we're going to find gradually a band
:06:55. > :06:57.of showery rain which has been affecting western areas just
:06:58. > :07:00.creeping its way further eastwards - temperatures broadly about 8 or 9
:07:01. > :07:04.And by that stage, albeit many of you getting up to a dry
:07:05. > :07:06.start there will already be some showers around, and that's really
:07:07. > :07:08.settlng the tone then through the rest of Saturday,
:07:09. > :07:11.with some sunny spells proving quite prolonged if you're lucky,
:07:12. > :07:13.in other cases though you will be getting some showers
:07:14. > :07:15.which will be heavy, possibly thundery in places,
:07:16. > :07:17.and slowly, slowly fading away through the course
:07:18. > :07:21.Now, temperatures tomorrow will be a bit down on today,
:07:22. > :07:23.so about 13 to 15 Celsius - pleasant enough, mind
:07:24. > :07:26.you, in the sunshine - and it will certainly be that way
:07:27. > :07:28.on Sunday, with much more in the way of sunshine around.
:07:29. > :07:36.That's it from me; here's a look at your national forecast.
:07:37. > :07:43.Hello. There the weekend is here and Sunday looks like being the better
:07:44. > :07:47.day of the two. We're going to start the weekend, a new month, with
:07:48. > :07:51.sunshine and April showers. Those fade away overnight. Saturday night
:07:52. > :07:54.could be chilly. It points to a fine day on Sunday. This picture was
:07:55. > :07:58.taken by a weather watcher to end the day in Dundee. This one is
:07:59. > :08:00.probably my favourite of the day. This was taken at Yarmouth in the
:08:01. > :08:01.Isle